(February 12, 2014 at 4:11 pm)Tonus Wrote: It certainly is interesting that just after commanding them not to kill, god gives the Israelites a list of things that they can kill people for doing. Then later he promises to give them a homeland of their own... if they kill or enslave the current tenants (unless they are virgin girls). Only religion could make rape seem like a better option.
Really hilarious that these are the beliefs of the "without God, there is no morality" types.
The usual response is "Oh, that's the OT God: You know, before he went to Anger Management."